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Artists Set Islamic Futurism Into Motion
Islamic visual traditions have long made space for realities beyond direct perception, and these artists work in calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making to carry them forward.
Sadaf Padder
Sadaf Padder is a Brooklyn-based curator and art advisor.
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Black-Owned Film Shop Photodom Gets a New Home in Bushwick
The beloved store’s expanded ground-floor location marks a major milestone for Brooklyn’s analog photography community.
Art
Artists Look to Sufism for Echoes of the Divine
From qawwali nights in Brooklyn to diasporic sculptors, contemporary artists are expanding and remixing Sufi traditions while honoring their roots.
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Indian TV Show Draws Criticism After Dalit Writer Alleges Appropriation
Yashica Dutt has pointed out similarities between her life’s story and one of the characters in Made in Heaven.
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Artists Reflect on Dalit History Month
Taking inspiration from Black History Month, Dalit artists and activists fighting for caste abolition celebrate April as a month of resistance and pride.
Art
Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Sadaf Padder presents an exhibition to offer insight into her curatorial process.
Art
How Can a Curator Approach South Asian Futurisms?
How do I acknowledge my shortcomings while reckoning with obscured histories and the exclusion of subaltern narratives in the fine art landscape? A working checklist for curators.
Art
In Search of Inclusive South Asian Futurisms
We have been dangerously siloed for far too long by colonial constructs of race, nation, and time that separate, divide, and deny us our very being.
Art
A Tale of Two Countries: Finding Indo-Caribbean Shakti in Colorado
While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.